icepixie | "I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world."

Showed my students Dead Poets Society tonight. Not many came (ohhhh, there's gonna be a quiz on Friday), but of those who did, I got more than a few "OMG, this is my new favorite movie!"s, which was gratifying. (Thanks for the suggestion,

vallentine!) I was sort of surprised that so many of them hadn't seen it before; as I recall, we watched it at least three times in high school, and perhaps even once every year. I think we may have watched it in middle school as well. I must tell them about watching that movie with my fellow Pezzers and then going out and yawping into the night at Kenyon.

ETA: I just looked up the movie on Wikipedia, and...one of the boys grew up to play Dan Rydell on Sports Night! Ha! No wonder he looked so familiar! (Also...seriously, that was Ethan Hawke? I had no idea.)

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I was gonna say, "Oh, they probably just didn't show because they've all already seen it," but... ow.

Yep. I think a few had seen it and weren't there, but the majority didn't seem to have even heard of it.

I saw it for the first time as a freshman in high school, when a teacher made us watch it in one of those mandatory self-esteem/life-skills classes. It did indeed teach life skills! With baby!Wilson!

Mwahahaha! I think we saw in during those "it's after the AP exam but before school lets out, so let's watch movies!" periods.

ps - this episode of Community is based on DPS. An amusing use of twenty minutes!

Very amusing indeed! (Is it just me, or did the teacher look exactly like Shutt?)

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but the majority didn't seem to have even heard of it.

Woe to the youth of America!

Is it just me, or did the teacher look exactly like Shutt?

Heh. Maybe a young Shutt?

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